Poster made for the exhibition HALLelujah 2, Glasgow, 2010. Title: ‘Can Art Manipulate Money? 2010’ (Does Money Manipulate Art? *AWC 1969). Glasgow Poster 2010, Edition of an indeterminate Number; legacy endowed upon Hard Working Artists in Glasgow, April 2010. *Art Workers Coalition
The Guardian reports: Not paying artists deeply entrenched in gallery culture, research suggests.
A-n finds 71% of contemporary visual artists received no fee for taking part in publicly funded exhibitions in last three years
The image of the hard-up artist toiling away day and night for little or no reward is nothing new but research published on Monday may still surprise.
It shows that more than 70% of contemporary visual artists who took part in publicly funded exhibitions in the last three years received no fee. Almost as many are now saying no to galleries because they cannot afford to work for free.
The figures are published as part of a new campaign called Paying Artists, which is seeking a more equitable system.
Read more over at:The Guardian
